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[-] homes@piefed.world 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We have the benefit of decades of parsing this sort of message. 25 years ago, this was like another language.

Especially when individuals or friend groups would make up their own abbreviations for their own slang, and you might have no goddamn idea what something meant

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 3 days ago

So old people have their own secret language that young people can't decipher?

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

For once, we have the upper hand.

[-] homes@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago

Hey, who are you calling old?

[-] from_D4rkness@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
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